Neighbor gets petty revenge on swimmers who play loud music until 4 AM: 'I play my own music on a loop at max volume'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 8, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

You might think having the apartment right next door to the pool would be the best thing ever, but not for this person. It seems ideal on the surface: who wouldn't want to wake up on a hot Saturday morning, take just a few steps, and be right there at their apartment's pool, ready to take a dip? Well, it's not all fun in the sun, as this person could tell you. They're not alone in using the community pool — hoards of their neighbors are using it too. I imagine it's similar to staying in a motel that has a pool at the center. You appreciate the proximity, but when it's 11 AM and there's a loud group of guys who won't stop splashing each other and yelling at top volume, you wish you'd never set foot near that pool. 

This person has a great way of getting petty revenge on their loudest neighbors: they're choosing the playlist themself! They found the perfect song… and commenters chimed in with other hits to add to the "Annoying Neighbors Go Home" playlist. 

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    "People keep playing music in the pool area after hours. So I play my own music. On a loop. At max volume."

    So it's summer. I am in an apartment next to the pool. The walls are thin. As in, if you have a conversation in the pool area, I can hear it. Which s ks, but hey, it's a common area. And the place is supposed to close down at 10pm. Not what I'd like, but those are the rules.
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    As you can guess by the title of the thread, people are ignoring the closing hours. And staying up as late as 2am or 4am at some hours talking or occasionally playing music. I did it all, called the front office, who told me to call the cops who said they wouldn't really do much. "There's no county noise ordinance." No county noise ordinance, you say?
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    Keep in mind I do know they will enforce obscenity (Texas gonna Texas.) So, starting last friday, when 10pm rolled around and kids were out playing music and screaming in the pool, I pulled out my own bluetooth speaker. And played "What's new P ycat?" on repeat. Until people left.
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    Saturday rolls around and there's an email stating the front office is going to lock the pool gates at 10. They did saturday night. But sunday night? Nope. And there's a party going on. Tons of kids screaming.
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    Out comes the speaker, and we do "What's new pycat?" on a loop. So far no one's lasted longer than 30 minutes with it.
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    People couldn't wait to add to this person's playlist!

    TenaCVols You should add "Baby Shark" into the loop.
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    catharsisdusk I used to live adjacent to the apartment complex pool. My issue was parents letting their kids scream at the top of their lungs NON-STOP!! | worked nights, so it was a real issue. I finally purchased an air horn. With the blinds closed, no one could tell which apartment it was coming from. It was very effective.
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    luvnuts80 Playing "The End" by the Doors on repeat is guaranteed to clear people out. It's one long and depressing song. Fun fact: my friend use to do karaoke to that song and would clear out the bar he sang at. He was a , but my 22 year old mind at the time thought it was kinda funny
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    This would drive people up the wall

    SunDummylsD Google "Beatle Barkers". It's a full album of Beatles songs, but with dog barks instead of singing. Hilariously annoying.
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    Trippynet Well done! Reminds me of a time many years ago when a friend of mine threw a small party for friends at his parent's house (they were away on holiday). One of the girls he invited decided to bring four guys along that none of us knew. We called her out on it - my mate wasn't comfortable having people there he'd
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    never met in his parent's home, but she didn't want to tell them to leave. My mate also wasn't comfortable asking them as they were all fairly big guys and he didn't want to cause a scene or anything.
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    We tried making it awkward for them - we all moved to the kitchen so they were pretty much alone in the living room, hoping they'd take the hint. But no.
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  • 15
    So, having had a couple of drinks, I queued up the theme from Ghostbusters on the sound system, and set it on repeat. After the third cycle of the same song, they got the hint (or decided that the "party" was lame) and quietly left.
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